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  • Usage in publication:
    • Red Bluff sandstones
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Anadarko basin
Publication:

Cragin, F.W., 1896, The Permian system in Kansas: Colorado College Studies, v. 6, p. 1-48., See also "Modern classifications of the Permian rocks of Kansas and Nebraska," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Oct. 1936, 1 sheet


Summary:

Pg. 3, 40. Red Bluff sandstones. Light-red friable and porous sandstones and shales, 175 to 200 feet thick, composing next to lowest formation and major part of Kiger division. Overlies Dog Creek shales and underlies Day Creek dolomite. [Later reports give maximum thickness 500+ feet.] Age is Permian.
[Named from exposures at former post office of Red Bluff, Comanche Co., central southern KS.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1783).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Red Bluff sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1925, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1925) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Midcontinent], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

†Red Bluff sandstone of Cimarron group abandoned. Preoccupied. Replaced with Whitehorse sandstone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1783).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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